For a music i suggest you:
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Rondò Veneziano - La Serenissima (Versione Estesa)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O9SQjy2zpo
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Rondò Veneziano Capriccio Veneziano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl0gpY5kIN8
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Rondo Veneziano - Rondo Veneziano 1998 (1980).flv
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP8LbzqcYbc
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RONDO VENEZIANO - ARABESCO -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX4vZz4O4q4
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Rondò Veneziano
is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, led by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal composer of all of the original Rondo Veneziano pieces. The unusual addition of modern instruments, more suitable for Jazz, combined with Reverberi's arrangements and original compositions, have resulted in lavish novel versions of classical works over the years. As a rule in their concert tours, the musicians, mostly women, add to the overall Baroque effect wearing Baroque-era attires and coiffures.
for more informations, please, follow this link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondò_Veneziano
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HEART, LIGHTS, SKY, NIGHT, DARKNESS...
ALL IS REAL IN THE MAGIC TOWN
ALL IS REAL AS IN A DREAM
AND DREAMS ARE REAL...
PLEASE, SEE ON BLACK, IT IS REALLY MAGIC!!!!!
FOR A MUSIC I SUGGEST YOU:
FRANCO BATTIATO: "La Cura" English Version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfupEOX50IY
Happy New Year (music ABBA - with lyrics)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCgaeJfzQrg
RONDO' VENEZIANO: NOTE DI NOTTE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnrx5ilPFxY
Rondò Veneziano "Aria di Festa"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=licZmtUws7Q&feature=fvwrelrel=
Diana Krall - Love is where you are
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLEJAyYor9E
"Give every day
the chance to become
the most beutiful day
in your life"
[Mark Twain]
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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No Photoshop, no digital processing.
It is only the miracle and the magic of this place between sky and lagoon
Taken today December 8, 2011 at about 16:35 at the starting point of Canale della Giudecca in Venice
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....THE MOST MAGIC TALE, WHERE EVERYTHING IS ENVELOPED IN A SOFT,
HAPPY ATMOSPHERE MADE OF JOY AND SERENITY...AND...MISTERY
THE MOST MAGIC MOMENTS IN THE MOST ENCHANTED TOWN,
WHERE EVERYONE CAN GIVE SOUL AND HEART, IMAGINATION AND LOVE...
THE MAGIC DREAM IN THE MOST MAGIC TOWN....
THIS IS VENICE CARNIVAL...
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FOR A MAGIC MUSIC FROM VENICE, I SUGGEST YOU:
Rondò Veneziano - Odissea Veneziana -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15dgTJFV04
Rondo Veneziano * Fantasia*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-PtVNu4Kww
Rondo Veneziano - Rondo Veneziano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O8y7Xe6hb8
Rondo Veneziano-La Serenessima
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_miI-kAgkUM
Rondo Veneziano Gondole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRIZzZSl_qM
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ABOUT THE HISTORY OF VENICE CARNIVAL:
It is said that the Carnival of Venice was started from a victory of the "Serenissima Repubblica" against the Patriarch of Aquileia, Ulrico di Treven in the year 1162. In the honor of this victory, the people started to dance and make reunions in San Marco Square. Apparently, this festival started on that period and became official in the Renaissance. In the seventeenth century, the baroque carnival was a way to save the prestigious image of Venice in the world. It was very famous during the eighteenth century. It encouraged licence and pleasure, but it was also used to protect Venetians against the anguish for present time and future. However, under the rule of the King of Austria, the festival was outlawed entirely in 1797 and the use of masks became strictly forbidden. It reappeared gradually in the nineteenth century, but only for short periods and above all for private feasts, where it became an occasion for artistic creations.
After a long absence, the Carnival returned to operate in 1979. The Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice, and sought to use the traditional Carnival as the centerpiece of its efforts. The redevelopment of the masks began as the pursuit of some Venetian college students for the tourist trade. Today, approximately 3 million visitors come to Venice every year for Carnival. One of the most important events is the contest for la maschera più bella ("the most beautiful mask") placed at the last weekend of the Carnival and juried by a panel of international costume and fashion designers.
AND FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice
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...IMAGINE TO BE HERE....
Your Correspondent from Venice
shows YOU one of the most famous moment and competition in Venice....
Every year, the first Sunday of September,
the Historical Regatta
comes back in Venice, the most traditional among the venetian events, which took place for the first time the 10th of January 1315 under the rule of the doge Giovanni Soranzo.
The sumptuous event, organized in the Serenissima times to celebrate the military victories or to honour the foreign dignitaries, today is made up of two different parts: the historical parade and the rowing boat races.
The Historical Regatta starts out with the colourful procession on water, formed by the Bissone, the Bucintoro and the boats of the venetian rowing clubs; the event commemorates the Queen of Cyprus, Caterina Cornaro, coming to Venice, which marked the beginning of the Serenissima rule over the Mediterranean islands. The historical parade has now just a picturesque importance, memory of the distant economical and political greatness of Venice on the seas, while the regattas represent still today the climax of the agonistic season in the world of the rowing alla veneta: winning that day for the rowers means to become a part of the history of this sport and, to a certain extent, of Venice.
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The last technical note is about the Venice Historical Regatta route; it goes from Riva degli Schiavoni, where the start is, to Punta della Salute where, after the cavata (the start sprint), the public waits impatiently for the first boat entering the Grand Canal, since often that will be the winning one. Then (except for the race on pupparini ending up in front of Ca´ Foscari) the boats go up the Canal Grande to the train station where the turning pole is, then they go back towards the finish line in front of the Machina (the floating stage reserved to authorities and built for this occasion on the Grand Canal in front of Ca´ Foscari). When the various usual accusations of incorrectness are over, in front of the Machina the prize-giving ceremony takes place.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONS:
venicexplorer.net/tradizione/storica.php
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THE BOAT ON THE PHOTO IS NAMED:
"TOPO"
Even if known as a support board of the tartana, the topo had its own identity since it was used for fishing and carrying goods.
The existence of this kind of boat has been reported since 1348 when Sinisio described it as “navis lata sine carina” and we can assume it originated in the Venetian lagoon area.
Later it became more important and its dimensions and shape developed according to the place it was constructed and for which purpose.
Its hull usually measured from 6 to 11 mt, it had a partial deck up to 8 mt boats and a complete deck in the longer ones.
It had a flat boot and elegant shapes particularly for the bow, with a rather rounded stern and a big helm (called timone a calumo), with oar-forks and oars (from 2 to 4), to be able to row also in the Venetian way.
This kind of boats, till 9 mt long, had a mast with balance-lug mainsail and sometimes a jib used to balance the bow when sailing.
For longer boats the jib was not enough and it was necessary to add another mast at stern, with a small sail, as the bragozzo boats.
The Venetian topo was elegant, raked, long and narrow, with a round stern; the Chioggia topo was less elegant, quite large, with a rough stern which curves upwards, while the Istria topo, developed from the Chioggia one, had a gentle shape.
The topo used for lagoon fishing was called mussetto or musso in its basic version, and also mestiereto if it was longer than 7 mt: it was used as support boat by shipping companies and also as tender. The version with two masts was used to carry small things and for sardines fishing, in particular in the North Adriatic and it was usually known as battello.
The version used for coastal fishing had often a lateral board to have higher boat sides and it was called batelo or topo col filo, later simplified to become the current topa, which is cheaper because lighter and with the transom stern.
The topo is still used, particularly in the Venetian lagoon, both as pleasure boat and transport boat, because of its loading space, strength, handling, and possibility to add a motor.
For more informations on Venetian boats:
www.grazianogozzo.com/en/barche.htm
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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